Abstract
There have been many studies on the relationship between parenting style and personality characteristics of college students, and there are many inconsistent conclusions on the direction and intensity of the correlation. In order to explore the relationship between parenting style and personality of college students in China, this systematic review and meta analysis included 12 studies with 4,984 college students. Results showed that: 1) Positive parenting style was significantly negatively correlated with neuroticism and positively correlated with extraversion; 2) Negative parenting style was significantly positively correlated with psychoticism and negatively correlated with neuroticism. Parenting style can significantly influence college students’ personality.
Highlights
College students’ sound personality affects the fate of themselves, and determines the future of a country to a certain extent
Results showed that: 1) Positive parenting style was significantly negatively correlated with neuroticism and positively correlated with extraversion; 2) Negative parenting style was significantly positively correlated with psychoticism and negatively correlated with neuroticism
Liu showed that severe punishment, excessive interference and refusal of fathers and severe punishment and preference of mothers were significantly positively correlated with neuroticism, while emotional warmth and understanding of fathers were significantly negatively correlated with psychoticism
Summary
College students’ sound personality affects the fate of themselves, and determines the future of a country to a certain extent. Parental emotional warmth and understanding were significantly negatively correlated with neuroticism, while fathers’ refusal and over-protection were significantly positively correlated with psychoticism (Zeng, 2012). Xia’s research showed that parents’ emotional warmth is negatively correlated with psychoticism and neuroticism, and positively correlated with their extraversion. Liu showed that severe punishment, excessive interference and refusal of fathers and severe punishment and preference of mothers were significantly positively correlated with neuroticism, while emotional warmth and understanding of fathers were significantly negatively correlated with psychoticism. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to unify these studies and get a more objective conclusion Both parenting style and personality contain too many dimensions and this weakens its guiding significance to reality. Based on previous studies (Lei, Chiu, Cui, Zhou, & Li, 2018), we classified them as positive parenting style and negative parenting style to simplify the conclusions
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